JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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ThonTaddeo
The spelling of Christina Green's last name should be corrected; there's no 'e' on the end.
She was the grand-daughter of former baseball manager and executive Dallas Green, famous for his many successful years with the Phillies, Cubs, and Mets. He created winning teams wherever he went, and it looks like his progeny were winners too. Rest in peace, Christina.
Posted in: Arizona Rep Giffords shot, 6 killed, including judge, 9-year-old girl
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ThonTaddeo
"Have the BoJ print new money to the tune of around Y100 trillion.
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In the meantime push for a stronger yen overall..."
These two things are mutually incompatible. If you print more fiat money with no intrinsic value, your currency will decline (as we have seen, and are seeing, with the USA).
I say refuse to print more money (devaluing the savings of the people) and let the yen stay high. Inflation would make Japan's problems much, much worse. At lease today people can save their money and ride out periods of unemployment. You can't do that if your savings is steadily being eroded.
Posted in: How Japan can turn the tables on its economic decline
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ThonTaddeo
There are few crimes as cowardly and disgusting as assaulting a sleeping person. He was 100% defenseless.
Posted in: Saitama woman held for murder after setting fire to husband
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ThonTaddeo
What a disgrace. More egregious trumped-up charges are hard to imagine.
Free Mr. Assange!
Posted in: WikiLeaks founder arrested in UK on Swedish rape charge
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ThonTaddeo
Banning smoking in public might cause more harm than good -- my wife is a smoker, and because of the lack of places to smoke in public, she always wants to smoke in our home. And if I think I can't stop her, imagine how much harder it would be for a child to stop his mother or father from smoking in the house!
Posted in: More than 600,000 people killed by 2nd-hand smoke every year
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ThonTaddeo
In New York when I was a kid the Christmas season began at the end of the Thanksgiving Day parade, where Santa Claus always brought up the rear.
That seems like a good enough time to start it; you had Halloween at the end of October, Thanksgiving in November, then Christmas in December. Holidays at one-month intervals.
Posted in: Why do you think that Christmas decorations and illumination displays are put up so early in Japan?
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ThonTaddeo
Yonaguni's total population is 1600 and falling. And Tokyo wants to put a military base staffed by several hundred non-Okinawan soldiers there?
And these people complain about how much land the US bases take up!
Posted in: Japan eyes doubling ground troops on islands close to China, Taiwan
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ThonTaddeo
The Japanese train system is truly a paragon of excellence compared to a typical US city where automobiles are favored in every possible way. Parking spaces in particular are required in some areas in such a number as to forcibly spread businesses and residences further apart, creating a vicious circle of car dependence and making a subway system untenable.
I'm hoping that as the baby boomers age, their declining eyesight will lead to a reappreciation of the fact that not everyone can drive a car, and that the next spike in oil prices that is sure to come will lead to a decreased dependence on gasoline in favor of electric trains.
As for paying your bus fare, it's been a few years since I took a bus in Manhattan, but when I was in college across the river in New Jersey, if you put in more than the required fare, the next person got the benefit of your excess. Many times I got a 10-cent discount because the person stepping on before me only had quarters for a $1.40 bus ride.
Since the Manhattan bus fare is a multiple of 25c, it looks to me like the problem is not that you need exact change, but that the buses simply don't take bills. Or can you not ride the bus with three of those newfangled dollar coins?
Posted in: The butterfly in the subway
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ThonTaddeo
If JT ran pictures of every extraneous policeman on the streets for this silly conference, they would run out of hard disk space trying to store them all.
Posted in: APEC patrol
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ThonTaddeo
Someone born in 1910 using the word "dis"; I love it!
Posted in: 'Titanic' co-star Gloria Stuart dies at 100
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ThonTaddeo
If increases in life expectancy were that important, women would have a retirement age that's five to seven years later than men.
Politically unpalatable, but you can hardly call it unfair.
Posted in: France hit by new strikes over retirement age
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ThonTaddeo
What I'm suspicious about is this*
So far we only have her word on that, right?
Posted in: 18-year-old schoolgirl arrested for dumping newborn infant in garbage
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ThonTaddeo
Huh? Did you type "both" when you meant to type "neither"?
Posted in: Japan urges calm after China severs contacts
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ThonTaddeo
Windhoss is doubly wrong -- if the islands were part of Taiwan (which they aren't), they would be spelled "Tiaoyu" in Wade-Giles, not in Mainland Pinyin.
But they're not part of Taiwan, and certainly not part of Mainland China. Just look at a map -- Chinese territory is supposed to somehow extend northesat (but not due east) from Taiwan, hook over Yonaguni and the huge Ishigaki island, and encompass some little islands north of Ishigaki? Get serious, China.
Posted in: Japan urges calm after China severs contacts
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ThonTaddeo
In Japanese, maybe, but not in most Okinawan languages. Here' a short word list from Shuri:
http://www.koza.ne.jp/koza_index/uchina-guchi/words.html
East and west are "agari" and "iri" (or variations on that), and north and south are "nishi" and "hai" (or similar).
Posted in: Who has the best claim to the Senkaku Islands: Japan, China or Taiwan?
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ThonTaddeo
Whoever made this poll is either biased or irresponsible when they offer up Japan, China, and Taiwan as if those are three separate entities (unless "China or Taiwan", without a comma, is meant to convey a single choice).
Mainland China's position is that Taiwan is a part of China. Support that if you will (I think it's bunkum), but
In any case, the Senkaku Islands have never been permanently inhabited, so it's difficult to say that they "belong" to any person, much less to any large nation-state.
Position-wise, they are far to the east of Yonaguni, well inside the point equidistant between Yonaguni and Taiwan which would make for a natural border point. The mere fact that Japan offered to explore resources jointly with China is a big concession if you ask me.
Here's an idea: put the looking-for-a-home Okinawan US bases on those islands!
More seriously, I'd like to see them given a neutral Okinawan name. There's no reason that a mainland Japanese name should be forced on an uninhabited Okinawan island chain, and certainly Okinawan is better than the Taiwanese "Tiaoyu", and definitely better than Mainland Chinese Pinyin "Diaoyu" which would make no sense at all. How about calling them "Nishi Inashi" ("North Ishigaki" in that island's language) or perhaps "Iri-Uchina" ("West Okinawa")?
Posted in: Who has the best claim to the Senkaku Islands: Japan, China or Taiwan?
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ThonTaddeo
Join the club.
Posted in: 30s becoming most crime-prone age group
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ThonTaddeo
"Tries" is the operative word. If she were genuinely suicidal, she wouldn't have "tried"; she would have done it. She's a murderer.
Posted in: Mother murders her 2 children; then tries to kill herself
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ThonTaddeo
Borscht, if it's bigger than a certain size, it has to be sealed; you can't even brandish it in the air. Remember that 70+-year-old American tourist who was put in jail for nine days because he was carrying a near-harmless pocketknife?
Posted in: Woman enters Gifu police station, threatens to kill officer
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ThonTaddeo
If a woman wears a skirt or dress she usually feels she has to wear pantyhose/tights/leggings along with her outfit. And then there's the high heels!
All those things look great! (Well, maybe not the leggings, with those bare feet sticking out. But all the other items!) They have the same effect -- making a woman's legs look longer, smoother, and slimmer -- as a typical sport jacket does for men: the squared shoulders look more masculine.
Traditional wear didn't come about by accident -- it makes the wearer look more attractive to the opposite sex. And that's a good thing!
Whenever I get complimented by a woman on a fashion choice, I want to wear that more often. What's wrong with putting other people's pleasure first? Sure, I could go with what's simple and wear a hockey sweater and jeans every day, but if I did that, I'd be the same as women who ruin their attractiveness with a pair of baggy pants. I'd rather put a smile on a woman's face!
Posted in: Who cares about hemlines? Women's pants again on the radar